Pita Bread (Pocket Bread)
Pita Bread (Pocket Bread)

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pita bread (pocket bread). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

You can make pita bread either in the oven or on the stovetop, and there are advantages and disadvantages to both. In the oven, pitas puff up much more grandly and make softer pockets, but they stay pale-colored and fairly mild-tasting. On the stovetop, you lose some of the impressive puffing.

Pita Bread (Pocket Bread) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pita Bread (Pocket Bread) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have pita bread (pocket bread) using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pita Bread (Pocket Bread):
  1. Get Bread flour
  2. Make ready Olive oil
  3. Make ready Dry yeast
  4. Make ready Sugar
  5. Make ready Salt
  6. Make ready Lukewarm water

In the western world, though, pita bread has become popular due to its pocket that makes it convenient to use to make sandwiches. Store-bought pita (like store-bought sandwich bread) is often several days old. Warm, fragrant home-baked pita is obviously superior, and there's a bit of a thrill when the breads puff up in. I tried making pita bread in the past and every time I failed miserably so of course I was skeptical that I could successfully prepare pita bread using your instructions (It's not you—it's definitely me).

Steps to make Pita Bread (Pocket Bread):
  1. Combine ingredients in a bowl.
  2. When the consistency of the dough becomes even, sprinkle some flour on a clean work surface and knead for about 20 minutes. Place in a warm spot to rise. When the dough doubles in size, return it to the kneading surface, deflate it, and divide it into 6 pieces.
  3. Let it sit for about 15 minutes. Cover with a dry cloth.
  4. Roll into 15 cm width circles.
  5. Bake in oven preheated to 210℃ for 7 to 8 minutes. The dough will puff up as shown in the photo.
  6. Once they cool down, cut them in half. Spread with butter and fill with vegetables, ham, cheese, or any other filling of your choice, and serve.

Call me a bit overdramatic, but I literally teared up when my first batch came off the stove browned to perfection. This Pita bread is also often referred to as Arabic Bread, Syrian Bread or Greek Pita Bread. Even though the pita bread dough is similar to other flatbreads like pizza dough or a naan dough few ingredients and techniques used while making pita bread is what gives it the unique puff (pocket). Pita bread sandwiches are very good. I used to take them to work and my co-workers always commented how good they looked and how fresh they smelled!

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